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The Prisoner and the Chaplain

October 3, 2017 | ISBN 978-1-928088-43-1 | 246 Pages

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What if prison was the only world that existed for you now and everything else was a story? What if you weren’t sure if you were guilty but wanted forgiveness in any form? The Prisoner and the Chaplain is about two men; one man awaiting execution, the other man listening to his story. As the hours drain away, the chaplain must decide if the prisoner’s story is an off-the-cuff confession or a last bid for salvation. As the chaplain listens he realizes a life has many stories, and he has his own story to tell – a last-ditch plea for forgiveness… Read more
  • **Long shortlisted for the 2018 ReLit Award for Novels**

    • Ontario Morning from CBC Radio with Wei Chen (Wei Chen, CBC Radio, 29/01/2020)
      Michelle recommends some uplifting reads.
    • Interview with Hunter Street Books (Vanessa Westermann, Vanessa's Picks, 15/01/2019)
      Advice for young writers: "Make sure you read a lot. [I]f you don’t read – and I mean read deeply, read as a writer, look for what makes you think, look for what makes you lose yourself in a book and then ask yourself what the writer did to cause that – if you don’t read you might as well give up."
    • Get Lit episode for 2017-11-09 (CFMU, 09/11/2017)
      An interview with Michelle Berry.
  • Michelle Berry is the author of three books of short stories and five previous novels. Her short story collection I Still Don’t Even Know Youwon the 2011 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book Published by a Manitoba Publisher and was shortlisted for a 2011 ReLit Award, and her novel This Book Will Not Save Your Life won the 2010 Colophon Award and was longlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award. her writing has been optioned for film and published in the UK.

    Berry was a reviewer for the Globe and Mail for many years, and teaches online for the University of Toronto and is often a mentor at Humber College. Berry now lives in Peterborough, ON, where she operates an independent bookstore, Hunter Street Books.